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NANY has always been a community event, and this thread is about helping users connect with coders:

If you are a user with an application that you've always wanted to see coded then this is the place to mention it and discuss it. Hopefully a coder will wander by and get as excited about it as you are and it will materialize this coming New Year!

If you are a coder looking for a new idea for this year's NANY then this may well be the perfect place: the ideas hear already have some user interest and people who are interested in its development.

When a coder decides to develop an idea from this thread, they should mention that here with a link to the Pledge Thread where further discussion can continue.

I'm not sure if this would fit NANY 2011 but I'll throw it out for review.

As a recent forced convert to an Android smartphone(?) there is a need for a program/app that will easily allow someone to access their Outlook contacts, calendar, tasks, journal, etc. There are postings on a number of Android related forums looking for the same thing. At least in my case this wouldn't necessarily and would prefer it not happening "in the cloud." Via a USB cable is fine. There is a Google sync app but it only does basic contact & calendar sync. There is a 3rd party program but it will only work if you are on an exchange server.

That is the basics. I can point anyone to some of the forums or provide suggestions if it would help.

I have a large, serious, cross-platform (desktop/mobile/ipad/etc.) donationware project related to this post i made a while ago that i would like to collaborate with someone on, which i am currently envisioning using a combination of simple python, and heavy-duty javascript. If there are any experienced/serious/reliable javascript coders who are interested in teaming up on a large project let me know.

A proper sync and communication tool for Thunderbird/lightning!!!As of now, be it that you have a smart phone, or a simple flip phone. All applications that I am aware of only sync and communicate with Outlook (Evil incarnate).

I envision, for many years now, a tool that will allow me to sync with my contacts and calendar utilizing Thunderbird/lightning.

Something easy and intuitive, and a third party tool

I would not have this tool care about what phone make or model it is, but communicate and transfer Calendar and contacts. As easy as that sounds.....as far as I know; it has never been done.Therefore there must be a hitch some where!?!!!

This one is a windows-specific application, a kind of simple framework for providing a very simple kiosk-like interface for browsing and switching between different full screen applications that are treated like plugins.

The basic idea is to provide a user interface for a wall-mounted touchscreen lcd picture frame like computer. Users will be able to configure and switch between fullscreen "modules" easily.

These "modules" are just normal fullscreen applications, screensavers, or webpages -- so we're not talking writing some whole new complicated system. But there will be a fair amount of work making a nice looking interface for selecting modules, and making a neat little API that applications can use to make themselves available to the program, and i expect there will be a few cases where some tricky windows API stuff is needed to get this kiosk overseer application to behave elegantly and ensure that all launched processes feel and behave like proper kiosk applications (i.e. like a screensaver and suitable for display in a picture frame).

Many of you will not know that I have been in negotiations with Dexpot Virtual Desktop Manager for Collaborative efforts with Rainmeter and Circle Dock.A couple of weeks ago Sebastian and Patrick (Dexpot Programmers) agreed they would release a Universal SDK that could be built upon for Dexpot.This week they delivered.

For any one using Virtual Desktops, like I am, as I am monitored challenged on my craptop, Then this information may make for several great N.A.N.Y. Projects.

There is no current Documentation, but there is the base code and an example plugin build.

I have an idea: a personal spending habit report tool.Now that Wesabe is gone, I'm looking for an app where you can tag, catagorize and report on your spending and income using exported bank statements from online banking sites. So you import a series of bank statements, catagorize them and report so you see via graphs where your money goes and how spending habits have changed. It would be an app that would have a big market.

what was great about wesabe for me was that it recognised similar lines in bank statements so the second time you shop at shop x it would already catagorize that line for you.

I have been looking for a program that will float an-always-on-top icon showing the current active printer for the window in focus. Most programs show the default printer. That does not help if I have changed the active printer in Word, excel etc. When print often I end up sending the doc to pdf or other destination.

The color of the printer icon can be set for each of the installed printers. As the focus changes, the icon would change color and maybe have a small caption if the cursor hovers. That way, at a glance I know which printer is active. When the program cannot determine the active printer for a window, it would show a question mark.

Right now, most people disable the network that is not being used so the icon will disappear from the system tray. But I don't like to do that, especially for laptops, because you do want to connect it with the wire occasionally. Also, i just don't like the idea of disabling a device just because XP is too lame to simply hide it.

By the way, I did come across a more elaborate shareware program that included the feature in it, along with many, many other things. That program is called Moo0 RightClicker. I think they wanted about $40 for the whole package. All I really want is this one single function.

Small program request:Context menu item in Windows Explorer.shortened name: "Move To Parent"long name: "Move Selected Items To Parent Directory"In the old DOS days, it was easy to type in "move xyz.txt ..", or "move *.jpg .."In Windows there is nothing similar. And searching through Google turned up no simple program to accomplish this.Can any of the gurus here do it?

i guess Skwire will have his version soon enough but here's my take on this, MoveToParent. this tool will create a menu item in the SendTo folder, which will move selected file(s) to its parent folder. do give this a try and let me know if it works. a word of caution, please do some tests with sample files first before committing important files.

In an attempt to organise my life, I bought a ScanSnap scanner and have been scanning (and occasionally shredding) all sorts of stuff - bills, receipts, etc etc.

A faint irritation is the requirement to organise the files post-scan. I hoped to be able to use some sort of tagging system, but couldn't find anything suitable. Picasa would have been great, but I am scanning to pdf (for the post-scan search capability) and Picasa only does jpg files. So I have many folders.

What I would really like is a program which would examine pdf files in a folder and, based on past history, recognise them and suggest a folder (and/or tag) for them. So rather than scanning and separately filing credit card bills, utility bills, etc, I would just scan and run the program on the unfiled files. Then I would accept suggestions or create a new folder (thus advancing the learning for the future).

It's very similar to Picasa's face recognition software: when it detects new photos of people it recognises, it suggests who they are based on past history. Presumably the suggestion would be based on some sort of jpg recognition algorithm - my AmEx bills all look pretty similar! - but there is also text from the pdf aspect which could be used.

Is this the sort of thing which would work for NANY 2011? Any interest?

Here's one I would love to see: something a lot better than "right-click and choose properties" to edit a desktop (or other) shortcut's target and parameters. Stupid little dialog has a tiny edit box and having just spent 20 minutes helping someone set some up, I'm ready for a little app!

I have an idea: a personal spending habit report tool.Now that Wesabe is gone, I'm looking for an app where you can tag, catagorize and report on your spending and income using exported bank statements from online banking sites. So you import a series of bank statements, catagorize them and report so you see via graphs where your money goes and how spending habits have changed. It would be an app that would have a big market.

what was great about wesabe for me was that it recognised similar lines in bank statements so the second time you shop at shop x it would already catagorize that line for you.

Here's my proposal for the NANY challenge. Only expert developers should try this, it's not an easy thing to do - but it would be a very useful and powerful tool, good as a web service, and as an iPhone app.

I have always wished there were some way to annotate or add to a programâ€™s Help file, so that I could add my own notes to myself about how to use to program.

For instance, if I discover a quick and easy way to perform some function in my photo editor, I would like to add it right to the programâ€™s Help menu instead of creating some text file somewhere named â€śHelpful Hints on using the Photo Editorâ€ť and trying to remember to open that file when using that program.

Virtually every program has a Help menu. Is it possible to create an application that would add a new menu item called 'Notes' to every programâ€™s menu bar, either inside or next to the Help menu? This new Notes menu would be user editable to let the user add personally helpful information about using the program, for instance, how-to tips and tricks, file naming conventions, file saving location, etc.

If anything like this already exists I would love to know about it. If not, I hope someone thinks it a good enough idea to develop.